Posted: 10/6/04
Julius Thorpís World War II days are far in the past, but the Stacy area resident (Oxford Township) has now received his Medal of the Jubilee of Liberty honoring his service in the Allied invasion at Normandy, France, in June of 1944. Army Cpl. Thorp was with the 6th Engineers Special Brigade that went ashore on Omaha Beach on Day 1 of Normandy. His job was transporting ammunition to front line fighting forces. He remained in Europe until the end of war often working with
supply trains and at shipping yards. Thorp, who lived in Forest Lake from the late 1940s until the mid-1970s, received the Normandy medal this summer from Congressman Mark Kennedy. Thorp, 84, and his wife Doris, are the parents of seven children who attended school in Forest Lake and North Branch. He spent his work life as a contractor and builder.
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